Hi all,

All the focus can be on the negative aspects of poker sometimes. What are some of the nicest gestures you’ve seen at the table or in the poker world in general?

I once saw a mom helping her neurologically disabled daughter play 1/3 no limit. Mom was whispering the hole cards and the board to daughter. Very touching.

Thanks,
DT

One player to a hand pls…Floor!

I couldn't find a clip of it, but wasn't there a hand where Guy Laliberté gave a big chunk of a pot back to a pro, as he new the money meant a lot more to them. I think it was maybe David Benyamine?

Yes, it was Benyamine. I think it was the last bet before the winner was determined. Another pro (Doyle?) told him to take the deal because the money was insignificant to Laliberté but significant to David. Probably about 15 years ago.

Every girl whose ever slept with me after meeting me at a poker room

I love y’all

https://youtu.be/-GTqoOcPI5c?t=1414

linked to the point where the hand is shown in full. (they show it at the start of the video also but dont show the conclusion)

Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen that for ages.

I'd forgotten it was for $1.2m, that was probably the biggest TV hand for a while.

A young womans boyfriend was playing poker with me at the table, we got on great and they offered me lines of coke at the table. Safe today I didn't decline and that bloke is my best mate to this day.

Robbi, 135k because GMAN said he couldn't make his mortgage payment without it.

The quote from Doyle to Guy was some thing like "this is just one moment in your life, but this is his life." Classic.

Guy in WSOP was wearing a shirt honoring his deceased friend. Some guy knocked him out of tournament and somehow continued to honor him. Forgot if he actually wore the shirt or kept it with him

There was a 1/3 had where this guy shoved into a pretty big pot on the turn. This was at least 15 years ago, but I want to say the pot was about $200. As V tanks, this guy says "I'm going home either way. If I win, you can have it all, dealer." V folds. H shows his bluff and stands up to leave.

The dealer looks at him in confusion. Sure enough, he tells the dealer to take the pot. I remember he struggled to find enough room to put the chips, but he managed.

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The first time I tried to play for a living was 20/40 limit. And I remember one day I was just getting my teeth kicked in and I was probably visibly distressed. I was all in on a 3 way pot that was maybe $300-400 and prepared to go home. This guy made some really strong play on the river, maybe a check raise or something, with no side pot. He had a busted draw and I got the main and got to keep playing. He gave me a big smile. Basically, he saw me getting killed all day and wanted to throw me a bone. It wasn't a great time in my life overall and just having someone do something nice for me made me feel better. This was also over 15 years ago and, obviously, I still remember it.

The other V might not have felt so warmly about it.

I used to play every day with a miserable winning reg who was constantly berating dealers and other players. Sometimes he told stories about how his home life was a disaster and it was clear he wasn't badgering people for strategic reasons, so I always made a point of being friendly and nice to him despite his behavior. One day he went set over set on me for my whole stack. He paused for a second and said "you know, you're the only person in my life that's nice to me. I don't want your stack. Keep it."

Sometimes it pays, literally, to be nice to people.

I think it was Thanksgiving night or the night before a guy started tipping the dealer his winnings every hand. She moved off our table and he colored up and dropped about 20 black chips in her tip box.

saw Keating go around the aria poker room tipping dealers and all other employees a black or two each.

I've met plenty of nice people playing live, but I don't think I've ever seen anybody do anything kind beyond tipping. I was impressed recently though by a dealer helping a partially-sighted man play.

old lady checked back the nuts to me just last night right after she bluffed me off QQ and another kid off AA in a 155bb pot.

i don't know if she did it out of a sense of guilt or what. i swear i wasn't whining. much.

That’s cool and all, it’s probably just a form of pleasuring himself though

I’m racking my brain for stories not involving money and I’m struggling

Long time ago at Bicycle. 3/6 limit game and one of the players was a gorgeous young Southeast Asian woman wearing expensive cloths and roughly $250,000 in emeralds. Had two guards that were near but not hovering over her. Jerk at the table was making comments to her in her native tongue. They got into a pot where it was clear she had the winning hand and he had the jackpot. She open folds costing him the jackpot. He gets up to hit her but one of her guards stops him. She speaks to the other guard in her native tongue. Security and floor come over and she mentions her boyfriends name. They immediately make it clear whatever she wants to happen will. At this point her other guard comes back with $10,000. She gives everyone at the table what would have been their table share and a nice tip to the dealer, floor, and server. Never saw the jerk again.

There was an old WSOP episode where Maria Ho was approached by a woman with terminal cancer asking to plays a sng with her and a few of her other favorite players. Maria was a little aloof when first approached but her crying about it when telling the story was a very genuine moment.

So softplay is now considered "kind gesture at the poker table."

Ok.

lollllll I really want this one to be real, pretty epic if it is

Sounds completely fictitious. It’s an urban legend that someone at the poker table decided to stick it to a jerk by purposely folding a jackpot hand to deny them of a payout. I’ve heard a few pathological liars tell the story at the table claiming they were the baller who made that move. Are we also supposed to believe that the moron got up to hit a lady when she has two guards?

yea that story is an urban legend that's been told for probably 20 years. hell i've probably had 5 people in random casinos all over the country tell me they were at the table when it happened.

I got told by some long time card room employees Dnegs is one of the best tippers around, they couldn't emphasise enough how generous he was.